Disasters in conflict areas: finding the politics
Disasters in conflict areas: finding the politics
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冲突地区的灾难：寻找政治因素
作者：
Siddiqi A
尽管有大约50年的研究，但对冲突地区的灾害是如何产生和传播的，以及有关这些灾害的信息是如何被公众消费的，人们知之甚少。灾害研究的重点仍然是建立因果关系，展示与自然灾害有关的灾害如何导致冲突加深或带来和平。此外，减少灾害风险是国家的责任，这一点已被接受。在对冲突地区的灾害进行政治重新构想之前，对这些方法的优点和局限性进行了研究。在关于冲突地区灾害的更广泛辩论中没有“政治”，这不仅仅是一种善意的疏忽，实际上也是冲突地区灾害的政治。在易受自然灾害和政治冲突影响的地区和社区，不参与追求主导议程的过程和结果的政治，如新自由主义正统和国家帝国主义控制，需要得到承认和挑战。
Despite some 50 years of research, relatively little is known about how disasters in conflict areas are created and discursively framed, and how information on them is publicly consumed. The emphasis in disaster studies has remained on establishing causal linkages, demonstrating the way in which natural hazard‐related disasters result in deepening conflict, or ushering in peace. Furthermore, it has been accepted that disaster risk reduction is the state's responsibility. The strengths and limitations of these approaches are examined prior to a political reimagining of disasters in conflict areas. The absence of ‘politics’ from the wider debate on disasters in conflict areas is not just a benign oversight, but is in fact the politics of disasters in conflict areas. A politics that does not engage with the processes and outcomes of pursuing dominant agendas, such as neoliberal orthodoxy and state imperial control, in areas and communities vulnerable to natural hazards and political conflict needs to be recognised and challenged.